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en-usCopyright 2015 AOL, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/19/dead-rising-2-soldier-of-fortune-dlc-deployed-today/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/19/dead-rising-2-soldier-of-fortune-dlc-deployed-today/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/19/dead-rising-2-soldier-of-fortune-dlc-deployed-today/#commentsYou'll be able to add a touch more conventional warfare to Dead Rising 2 today with the "Soldier of Fortune" DLC. This $2 add-on includes military clothing and gives Chuck's guns increased power, accuracy and ammunition. Shooting zombies? With guns? Sounds pretty unorthodox, but it might work.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blue-castle-gamesdead-rising-2dlcmicrosoftpcplaystationps3psnskills-packsoldier-of-fortunexblmxboxTue, 19 Oct 2010 17:40:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/25/last-chance-win-soldier-of-fortune-payback/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/25/last-chance-win-soldier-of-fortune-payback/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/25/last-chance-win-soldier-of-fortune-payback/#commentsWe just wanted to remind everyone that entry into this week's Fanswag Weekly will be ending today, Friday, January 25th. Oh teh noez! But don't work yourself up into a hysteria, there's still a little more than one hour to register for the giveaway and potentially win a copy of Soldier of Fortune: Payback. To enter, simply comment over on the original Fanswag Weekly post with what you think is the best way to get payback on someone. That's it. It's really that easy.

Now run along fanboys and get your entry on. Precious giveaway minutes are ticking away and at noon eastern your chance at winning Soldier of Fortune: Payback will disappear. Good luck!

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>fanswagpaybacksoldier-of-fortunesoldier-of-fortune-paybackFri, 25 Jan 2008 10:45:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/23/fanswag-weekly-soldier-of-fortune-payback/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/23/fanswag-weekly-soldier-of-fortune-payback/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/01/23/fanswag-weekly-soldier-of-fortune-payback/#commentsUpdate: This giveaway is now over and a winner has been selected. If you entered, check your email to see if you were the lucky one!

After nearly a month long hiatus, Fanswag Weekly is back and ready for some payback ... Soldier of Fortune: Payback. This week we're giving away a new and freshly shrink wrapped copy of Soldier of Fortune: Payback to one lucky fanboy who can handle all its extremeness. This game is so extreme that Activision included its own anti-dismemberment "low-violence option". Now that friends, is extreme. To win a copy, simply follow the directions outlined below.

Since we're dealing with Soldier of Fortune: Payback, we want to know what the best way to get revenge or payback on someone is. Tell us your best payback strategy by commenting on this post, one comment per calendar day (eastern).

Multiple comments per day by the same user will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until Friday, January 25th at 12:00PM (noon) eastern. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

On Friday, we'll randomly choose one winner.

One winner will receive a copy of Soldier of Fortune: Payback, worth $40.

Good luck fellow payback'ers and be sure read up on the official rules here.

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The Soldier of Fortune series of games has long been a guilty little pleasure for many gamers. Developed by Raven Software (the guys making a little title called Quake 4), the first game starred a real-life mercenary named John Mullins and was made popular due to its unusual (for the time) real-world topical settings and violent, visceral combat. A sequel was made two years later in 2002, also starring John Mullins, titled Soldier of Fortune: Double Helix and upped the ante considerably in terms of gore and violence due to their much publicized GHOUL 2.0 dismemberment system.

Though neither game was ever considered a top-tier quality title, both Soldier of Fortune games have managed to attract and keep a solid cult following with many gamers (including myself) playing one or both of the games even to this day. So when Activision suddenly announced earlier this year that they were bringing the violent series back, many people were quite excited -- if a little confused by the news that Raven Software was no longer the development company. Things didn't get much better when it was found out that a small company named Cauldron out of the Slovak Republic would be handling the development, but still people held out hope. I mean how can they mess up with such solid groundwork already laid in place by the previous games?

Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for cracks to start showing in Soldier of Fortune Payback's facade. Right off the bat, you find out that they've ditched the series protagonist John Mullin in favor for a generic faceless mercenary who sounds like he's trying to pass an unusually large kidney stone every time he opens his chew-filled mouth. The rest of the voice acting in the game varies from much worse to slightly better and completely fails at drawing you into the characters or the story itself.

Look, we're really sorry to keep pestering you about this, but we thought you might like to win a ludicrously powerful Falcon Northwest computer worth five thousand dollars. And don't be concerned about those bullet holes -- they're just decals inspired by Soldier of Fortune: Payback, the latest in the face-splattering first-person franchise. This isn't some old thing we found in a firing range (but we'll be giving some dead raccoons away at a later date).

Since the folks at Falcon Northwest are the experts when it comes to building gaming PCs and we're the experts when it comes to asking obvious questions, we decided to combine our relative talents and present you with a short bit about a different component each day. Why does Falcon Northwest CEO, Kelt Reeves, think the EVGA nVidia nForce 680I - SLI makes for a good motherboard in a gaming system? "Mainly because it has a lot of letters, some of which are even capitalized. I've found that the more capital letters a part has, usually the better it is for gaming. It could also be the dual graphics card capability, quad-core CPU support, and great overclocking capability. But it's most likely the letters."

Just as we suspected. We also suspect you should be heading to the giveaway post (you can enter once each day) to answer the following question in the comments: What useless electronic device is currently wasting space in your house?

Here's your daily reminder to enter to win this here gaming PC built by the folks at Falcon Northwest (remember, you can enter once each day). Since they're the experts when it comes to building gaming PCs and we're the experts when it comes to asking obvious questions, we decided to combine our relative talents and present you with a short bit about a different component each day.

We asked Kelt Reeves, CEO of Falcon Northwest, who cares about the system's $250 Silverstone 1000W Strider power supply. He replied: "Well not the Amish. But these new-fangled video games require electricity. And if you want this new type of moving picture show ('talkie', to the layperson) to move like greased lighting, it takes a lot of parts ('doo-dads', to the layperson). And them there parts all use the electricity. The power supply ("magic box", to the layperson) gives them doo-dads the vim and vigor they need to make a good picture show ... does anyone else have a headache?"

We sure do. Go to the giveaway post and answer the following question in the comments: what electrical device in your house are you most thankful for (it is Thanksgiving, folks!). Hey, Does all of Rock Band count as an electrical device?

[Update: Comments are closed, and we've selected our winner and ... it's Ignatius! Congratulations, Ignatius. The folks at Falcon Northwest are custom building your PC right now. Solitaire is gonna fly on this thing!]

Here it is, folks. The most extravagant, expensive, and opulent prize we've ever offered you guys on this here blog. In laymen's terms: it's a one-of-a-kind Falcon Northwest system featuring a 3 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, two Nvidia GeForce 8800GT cards in SLI, two 500GB hard drives in RAID 0, and a 22" widescreen Viewsonic monitor, and a custom case featuring branding for the first-person limb mangler, Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Interested in the full specs for this beast (estimated retail value $4999), hit 'em up after the break.

As always, there are official rules you should probably avail yourself of, but we'll share the most important ones with you here: you can only enter once per day (we'll remind you daily) and you need to be 18 or older and live in the US (sorry, we don't make the laws). The contest will be open for two weeks and we'll pick a single (very lucky) winner at 5pm ET on Tuesday, December 4th.

For today's entry, let us know how embarrassingly underpowered your current gaming PC is. We'll start: we're rocking a 486 - DX2, thank you very much - and 640kb ought to be enough for anybody. You?

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>Falcon-NorthwestPCSoldier-of-FortuneTue, 20 Nov 2007 18:00:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/12/shipping-this-week-leap-of-faith-edition/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/12/shipping-this-week-leap-of-faith-edition/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/12/shipping-this-week-leap-of-faith-edition/#commentsThe holiday onslaught continues this week with nine new games for the Xbox 360. Assassin's Creed is arguably the most anticipated of the bunch -- and it's likely many gamers will be buying a copy on faith alone -- but we're sure there are plenty of people out there interested in the likes of BlackSite,Kane & Lynch, and Need for Speed Pro Street. And there are five more games aside from those. What the hell is a frugal gamer to do? Just take a look at all these games.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>americas-armyassassins-creedbeowulfblacksitekane-and-lynchneedforspeedprostreetshipping-this-weekshippingthisweeksoldier-of-fortunewwe-smackdown-vs-raw-08Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:30:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-will-tear-you-apart/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-will-tear-you-apart/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-will-tear-you-apart/#commentsActivision just announced another installment into the Soldier of Fortune franchise and if the in-game footage above is any inclination to what the game has to offer, then we're in for a bloody good time.

Soldier of Fortune: Payback is set to release this November and will feature thirty plus weapons, a plentiful array of weapons and the typical mercenaries gameplay Soldier of Fortune games offer up. But let's get back to the in-game footage as seen in the video embedded above. Do you see the amount of blood that comes out of those guys, how their legs, arms, and heads pop off and how they crawl in agony on the ground legless, grasping for help? That's butter! And even though we aren't sure how good the game will end up being as a whole, we can definitely say that we enjoy the bloody dismemberment effects. Next-gen dismemberment FTW!

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>activisionsoldier-of-fortunesoldier-of-fortune-paybackTue, 09 Oct 2007 16:00:00 ESThttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-thinks-its-okay-to-play-with-dolls/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-thinks-its-okay-to-play-with-dolls/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/10/09/soldier-of-fortune-payback-thinks-its-okay-to-play-with-dolls/#commentsFiled under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, VideoRagdolls, that is. Brought to you by the creepy kids who tore the arms off their action figures, Soldier of Fortune: Payback declares war on subtlety, good taste and the important bits that keep your limbs connected to the rest of your body. The brief video above is demonstration enough of the game's absurd level of violence, don't you think? Its composition of gory decomposition should give the ESRB a grand old time and players a hearty chuckle -- proof that over-the-top, Verhoeven-esque violence is still funny... or that years of desensitization have turned us into heartless murder machines. We just don't know, Jack.

What we do know is that if Soldier of Fortune:Payback is anything like its predecessors, utterly generic gameplay won't stop it from surfing a bloody torso all the way into the spotlight. (Like it just did when we posted this video!)